Verizon has launched a new partner program expected to be unveiled on Monday that allows a partner from a telecom competitor to automatically retain the same silver, gold or platinum level if they join Verizon.

The research firm NPD Group has unveiled the top 10 access point brands of 2014, with Cisco Systems leaps and bounds ahead of the pack, accounting for nearly 60 percent of total AP units sold last year.

Juniper Networks says new products it unleashed on Wednesday include security upgrades, with the hopes of eventually becoming the "network security leader," as well as providing fresh market opportunities and investments.

The two tech giants deepen their existing relationship with the new Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform, which integrates Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure with Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack.

Riverbed Technology's new senior director of public sector sales and business development Davis Johnson talks to CRN about upcoming changes to popular products, the U.S. federal market and trends in the public sector.

Wireless vendors are jumping on the opportunity to possibly steal some market share and channel partners in wake of the concerns Aruba Networks partners are expressing after it was unveiled that Aruba will be acquired by Hewlett-Packard later this year.